Richard Bach Quotes

Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

"He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"

"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world — even if what is published is not true.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown